Win2000 Desktop Icons

[carol david]

On my new Dell lapatop with Windows 2000, all desktop
icons are covered with something that looks like a trash
barrel with a "UN" on it in red letters. Does anyone know
what this means and why I can't see my icons?

 

[George Hester]

Jeeze I'd love to see a little gif of one of these icons. I have never seen nor heard this one.

Go to an online scanner and scan for virus:

http://www.antivirus.com

 

[Dan]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:34:47 -0800, "carol david"
| Does anyone know what this means and why I can't
| see my icons?

Your icon cache is probably overloaded. Worth trying to expand its
size and purge it of unused icons. There are several ways to do this,
but the following has always worked on my systems...

1-- download a copy of the ActivIcons freeware utility from
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_aifw.html

2-- in ActivIcons, go to its "Desktop Controls" screen and increase
the icon cache size to 2048 or 4096, and then

3-- rebuild the icon cache. The options for rebuilding the cache are
on 2 small round buttons at the lower/right corner. Shut down any
programs running in the background, then click the round button
farthest to the lower/right corner (your system will reboot, and the
icon cache will be cleaned out).

Hopefully that will clean it up for good.





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